GTM Engine turns Claude Code into your sales team. Eight opinionated slash-command skills that run your entire go-to-market motion — pipeline tracking, daily rituals, call analysis, lead scoring, cold outreach — all from your terminal.
From that standpoint, it's definitely happening already. But removal is easier too now. The real question is whether teams will have the discipline to delete. Most won't, but those who do will build better products.
I'm building a startup myself and we vibe code everything, except core/complex parts where AI struggles.
My workflow:
1. Give the agent detailed task + relevant file contexts (so it doesn't waste time searching)
2. Guide it with continuous feedback when it veers off
3. Jump in manually if it's going completely wrong direction
I use Claude Code for the agent work, Cursor for manual edits.
Key insight: AI coding works as well as your architecture does. I make all architecture decisions, file structure, organization -- AI just writes the implementation logic.
Clean architecture = better AI output.
I believe This is becoming the norm because it gives startups massive velocity advantage. That's probably why your CTO is pushing it.
Career impact? As a senior who understands what AI writes, you're gaining superpowers, not losing skills. You were previously bottlenecked by implementation speed and needed other engineers. Now you can be a 10x engineer - as long as you can envision the architecture, AI helps you build it faster.
The key is knowing when to guide vs when to take over. That judgment comes from experience.